Clare Daly: Irish MEP Reportedly Passed Contact Details for IRA Terrorist Liam Campbell to Russian Spy

Clare Daly, an independent Member of the European Parliament for Dublin, and who sits on the European Parliament’s Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, provided a Russian spy with contact details for Liam Campbell, a paramilitary figure held responsible for the Omagh bombing who faced extradition on terrorism charges.

This information was disclosed by The Sunday Times.

Respected author, and a specialist on terrorism, Kyle Orton has referred to Daly as “openly pro-Putin (and pro-CCP and pro-Iran).”

The Omagh bombing took place on 15th August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army, a Provisional Irish Republican Army splinter group who opposed the IRA’s ceasefire

Daly reportedly facilitated the communication between Campbell and Algirdas Paleckis, a Russian agent prosecuted by Lithuanian security services for transmitting information to the Kremlin.

The Sunday Times and the Dossier Centre, an investigative project monitoring the Paleckis case for several years, conducted an investigation that confirmed Daly’s role in this exchange.

In November 2021, Clare Daly provided Paleckis with an email address through which he could reach Campbell after Paleckis indicated his willingness to assist the republican dissident.

Subsequently, Paleckis directly communicated with Campbell, offering to connect him with friends who could provide help if he were imprisoned.

At the time, Paleckis was under house arrest pending an appeal, while Campbell was contesting his extradition to Lithuania, where he faced terrorism charges that were eventually dropped.

These interactions occurred during a period when Russian intelligence services were attempting to re-establish connections with republican paramilitary organisations as part of broader efforts to destabilise the European Union.

Daly, when approached in Dublin, declined to comment. She had previously failed to respond to emails, texts, and calls over several months. Upon being approached, she refused to accept a letter containing questions and repeatedly declined to answer direct inquiries.

Entertaining Terrorists in the European Parliament.

A group from the Irish Republican Prisoners’ Welfare Association attended a meeting in the European Parliament building, organised by Daly, to discuss the harassment of political prisoners, The Irish Times has reported.

Among the attendees was Patrick Gallagher, a 31-year-old from Raftery Close, Derry, who is facing charges related to a dissident republican parade.

Gallagher had been granted permission by a District judge to travel to Brussels for the meeting.

The Omagh Bombing, 15th August 1998, left 29 dead, and 300+ injured.

He is charged with encouraging and inciting support for a proscribed organization, the IRA, on April 10th, 2023, and organising a meeting to encourage support for the same.

Gallagher was one of five people associated with the prisoners’ association present at the meeting hosted by Ms. Daly.

The invitation for the event, circulated to MEPs, listed Brian Kenna, a senior figure in the dissident republican group Saoradh and a previously convicted IRA member, as one of the attendees, along with three others.

At a court hearing in Northern Ireland last month, Gallagher’s solicitor successfully sought to have his bail conditions amended to permit his attendance at the Brussels meeting.

The event, which was closed to the media, took place in a small meeting room within the parliament building.

The invitation indicated that the topic of discussion was the role of security services in “violating” the civil rights of “Irish political prisoners.” It noted that the event would be of interest to those involved in the intersection of state security and civil liberties.

Responding to inquiries, Ms. Daly stated that the attendees were representatives of the republican prisoners’ welfare association, which she described as “non-political.”

Trying to post bail for a terrorist.

In 2015 Ms. Daly, along with Mick Wallace (pictured head of page with Ms. Daly in the European Parliament), currently an MEP, and Irish politician Maureen O’Sullivan offered to post bail for a man accused of IRA membership and possession of explosives who Gardai (Irish police) believe were linked to a visit to Ireland by Prince Charles.

All three were present in court for the bail application which was refused.

Engineering graduate Donal O’Coisdealbha of Dublin, was charged IRA membership and possession of a component part of an improvised explosive device on May 13th of that year.

O’Coisdealbha pleaded guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na Éireann otherwise the IRA within the State on May 13th, 2015.

He was sentenced to seven years in prison.

N.B. Ms. Daly is reported by RTE as saying that she is taking legal advice over the article in the Sunday Times.